A Beginner's Guide to the Afterlife

Archaeologists have found the remains of hundreds of Iron Age fighters at Alken Enge—but they didn't die there.

Judged unworthy of Valhalla? Welcome to Helheim.

Mirrors from China, glass beads from Roman Egypt, and other treasures from far-flung places accompanied ancient Balinese elites to the afterworld.

For centuries, the cruel industry decimated entire whale species—and claimed countless human lives. Whalers arrived prepared for their own deaths.

First found at the ancient fortress of Tell el-Retaba, child burials in ceramic jars perplexed early archaeologists.

For centuries, the Beothuk people relied on seabirds to survive—and likely to find their way to the afterlife.

The quintessential Roman spectacle, originally a way to honor the dead, was not Roman in origin.